Shears Green Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Gravesend, Kent·DA11 7JF

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Shears Green Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

65 first choices, 73 places

First choices per place

0.89

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

179

any preference, for 73 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

n/a20220.9420230.7920240.9220250.892026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Shears Green Infant School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 279
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

35.5%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

13.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

11.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

22.6%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

25.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,244

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Shears Green Junior School Gravesend · 0.1 mi 42.0 Saint George's Church of England School Gravesend · 0.3 mi 58.7 Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School Gravesend · 0.5 mi 50.2 Painters Ash Primary School Gravesend · 0.8 mi 69.9 Whitehill Primary School Gravesend · 0.8 mi 37.8 Copperfield Academy Gravesend · 0.9 mi 55.0 King's Farm Primary School Gravesend · 0.9 mi 58.8 Wrotham Road Primary School Gravesend · 1.0 mi 53.3

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Shears Green Infant School is a primary school serving Gravesend, Kent, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 279 pupils aged 4 to 7 on roll.

Shears Green Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 65 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.6%. There are about 25.4 pupils per teacher. Shears Green Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.